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NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana - Big-boy football.
That's what Les Miles promised the day before, and that's what his LSU team delivered Monday night in the Superdome.
It was six visits to the scoreboard for Alabama and one trip across midfield for LSU.
It was no points for the Tigers and no doubt about the Crimson Tide.
It was Alabama 21, LSU 0, and now there is no doubt or dispute. There is no split and no mayhem after the Allstate BCS National Championship Game.
This was boys against men.
"I think so," Alabama center William Vlachos said. "I think we all brought our big-boy pads tonight. This was a game for men."
It started up front on both sides of the ball with two grizzled veterans from greater Birmingham playing their final college games. On offense, it was Vlachos, the fifth-year senior center from Mountain Brook, who anchored a line that gave AJ McCarron the kind of protection usually afforded the head coach.
And Nick Saban's guards are armed.
McCarron got Jeremy Shelley close enough to make 5 of 7 field-goal tries and put Trent Richardson in position to thunder 34 yards for the first touchdown of the season between these teams for the final points.
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